For him, what saints sought in silent contemplation could be reached through ecstatic and enstatic dances in Biodanza. Embracing paradoxicality, he realised that when we connect with others and the living universe we discover the self. Conversely, when we dive deeply into our inner world we find the living totality. In this process the barriers between the inner and outer worlds fade away and all that remains is a sense of oneness with totality, of being none other than the living totality itself.
According to Toro, our process of growth in the area of transcendence begins with a sense of intimacy with the cosmos, which can develop into a lived-experience of totality. In turn, this leads to a surrender of the ego, which is is followed by blissful feelings of universal love and the supreme experience.
Toro was aware that several thinkers and researchers had already shown the universality of the mystical experience and its independence from religious traditions. Here are a few authors he refers to.
WILLIAM JAMES AND THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE
Rudolf Otto and the Numinous Experience
"we are dealing with something for which there is only one appropriate expression, mysterium tremendum. . . . The feeling of it may at times come sweeping like a gentle tide pervading the mind with a tranquil mood of deepest worship. It may pass over into a more set and lasting attitude of the soul, continuing, as it were, thrillingly vibrant and resonant, until at last it dies away and the soul resumes its “profane,” non-religious mood of everyday experience. . . It may become the hushed, trembling, and speechless humility of the creature in the presence of—whom or what? In the presence of that which is a Mystery inexpressible and above all creatures."